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The Deep Stacked Home Game
We took a break from out usual Wednesday home game to play a $1/$2 game with a $500 buy in at the home of another Harvard Law student named Josh. Only Logan, Darren, and I elected to play, so it was a...
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The Last Home Game
Last Wednesday was the last ever session of the home game that my college roommate Logan has been hosting for the past three years. He and most of our fellow players are about to graduate from Harvard...
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Humorous Home Game Hand
Even though we’d technically had our last game a few weeks ago, Logan invited some regulars over for $.50/$1 NLHE game on Wednesday with a $150 buy-in. I played really poorly and got kind of tilty...
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Foxwoods For the Morning
Ran down to Foxwoods for a few hours today to get back in the swing of live poker in preparation for the WSOP. Mostly I reminded myself how mind-numblingly boring the games are and how god damn stupid...
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NAPT Day 2 Update
I started the day with 30K, quickly ran it up to 80K, dropped back down to 40K, ran it up to 130K, dropped down as low as 36K, then quickly ran back up to 140K and finished the day with 127,200....
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It Was a Crazy Game of Poker
I arrived at my local card room expecting to play the usual loose-passive $1/$3/$6 game. Instead, there were two full tables of $5/$5 running with a substantial waiting list. I sat for over an hour in...
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Borgata Fall Poker Open Main Event, Day 1
I’m skipping ahead a bit in time here in my chronicling of Carlos’ and my trip to AC, but there are a few of you with a financial interest in this, so I figured you’d want to know how it’s going right...
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Borgata Fall Poker Open Main Event, Day 2
Sorry I’ve been so long in getting this up. A lot of people expressed interest in it after I posted about Day 1, which I appreciate. My Day 2 starting table was probably above average. It featured...
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Big Pots, Same Villain
Act One: They Meet One of the first hands I saw when I sat down at the 5/10 game was this guy (“Villain”, hereafter) 4-bet-jamming 54 (no draw) on a 9h 7h 4s flop. He actually won a “flip” against 8h...
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A Bad Time to Balance
$5/$10/$20 game with $2500 stacks. UTG2 opens to $60, gets four calls, I call with 85s in the BB. Flop A85r (no backdoor for me), checks to the second caller, who bets $170. I call, everyone else...
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